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lucy craft, "nightly business report," kesennuma, japan. >> susie: tomorrow, lucy takes us to one town devastated by the tsunami for a look at how residents and business leaders are turning challenges into opportunities. and tom, a lot of challenges here at the new york stock exchange. every one of the dow components was in the red today, except for walmart. >> tom: yeah, one out of 30 was able to push up in the green as we began the fourth quarter, similar to how we wound up the third quarter which meant a lot of selling prebure. let's look at tonight's market focus. the fourth quarter got underway just like the third quarter ended-- lower stock prices. lots of selling. 3% drop in s and p. pulling out to a year-to-date chart, you can see the index broke below its august lows, taking it down to its lowest price of the year. the index is now 12.6% lower than where it was at the beginning of the year, and it's down almost 20% from its april high-- putting it just shy of bear market territory. all the major sectors lost ground today, lead by financial stocks-- down 4.5%. energy stocks, bi
lucy craft, "nightly business report," kesennuma, japan. >> susie: tomorrow, lucy takes us to one town devastated by the tsunami for a look at how residents and business leaders are turning challenges into opportunities. and tom, a lot of challenges here at the new york stock exchange. every one of the dow components was in the red today, except for walmart. >> tom: yeah, one out of 30 was able to push up in the green as we began the fourth quarter, similar to how we wound...
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lucy craft, "nightly business report," kesennuma, japan. >> susie: one stock that didn't participate in that market rally-- apple. investors were soured by apple's latest version of its popular iphone. they were disappointed to get the iphone 4s when they were hoping for an iphone 5. still, the announcement was notable because it was the first for new apple c.e.o., tim cook. it's also apple's first phone update in more than a year. the iphone 4s will range in price from $199 to $399. it's the first iphone that will be available for sprint nextel, in addition to the verizon and at&t networks. suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: meet the iphone 4s. yes, it's faster. and yes, it's got a better camera. but it doesn't appear much different than the iphone 4. so, will people buy it? >> unless it's such a drastic change, i'm not going to be getting the new iphone. i can wait. i'll wait a bit. absolutely. >> the generation that i'm on is a little older. so always looking for new products out there to help with the information. >> reporter: it's attitudes like that that have helped apple sell
lucy craft, "nightly business report," kesennuma, japan. >> susie: one stock that didn't participate in that market rally-- apple. investors were soured by apple's latest version of its popular iphone. they were disappointed to get the iphone 4s when they were hoping for an iphone 5. still, the announcement was notable because it was the first for new apple c.e.o., tim cook. it's also apple's first phone update in more than a year. the iphone 4s will range in price from $199 to...
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geological survey seismologist, lucy jones at her church in pasadena. in 18 89, a rock and mortar wall supporting a roof probably seemed like a good idea. but it is the worst possible construction technique in an earthquake zone. in fact it was outlawed here for new construction in 1933. >> what an earthquake is shaking, forces just like gravity but now pushing sideways instead of up and down. >> sideways gravity we don't build for typically. >> we don't typically build for sideways gravity, but that's exactly what you need to do for an earthquake. >> the church lost the bell tower during the big quake in 1971. more recently lucy jones made sure her fellow parishioners knew how vulnerable it was to even more damage so they fixed it. base can idea, make sure the roof would not have to rely on the masonry walls to stay standing. the. >> the way this was done,steen through the walls then roof was tied to those steel beams. inside we also have structural members to hold the roof together and so that even if all of the mortar dissolved and the rock starts co
geological survey seismologist, lucy jones at her church in pasadena. in 18 89, a rock and mortar wall supporting a roof probably seemed like a good idea. but it is the worst possible construction technique in an earthquake zone. in fact it was outlawed here for new construction in 1933. >> what an earthquake is shaking, forces just like gravity but now pushing sideways instead of up and down. >> sideways gravity we don't build for typically. >> we don't typically build for...
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. >> lucy says that talking about things is a start the she says that taking action is more difficult. even when children tell adults, nothing happens. >> that is a major problem, especially the parents. even the parents of those children that have been abused. >> activists have vowed that rapists cannot be allowed to go unpunished. the teacher who got -- pregnant is still a free man. the activists hope that awareness will save other lives and that one day rapists will be brght to justice. >> that wraps up "the journal," this hour. thank you for joining us. stay tuned. which foot was it? best make that "best wishes." we don't want them getng their hopes up, do we? no, i suppose not. have always done it. why should she watch the flowers? nobody really remembers,
. >> lucy says that talking about things is a start the she says that taking action is more difficult. even when children tell adults, nothing happens. >> that is a major problem, especially the parents. even the parents of those children that have been abused. >> activists have vowed that rapists cannot be allowed to go unpunished. the teacher who got -- pregnant is still a free man. the activists hope that awareness will save other lives and that one day rapists will be...
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. >> reporter: on september 11 2001, lucy preston was living on a different continent. today, she resides just a few blocks from the former world trade center having bought an apartment in lower manhattan in 2008. not only does it come with a stunning rooftop deck, but it's in what she calls an ideal community. >> we've been living here for last six years and there's a real feel of neighborhood redeveloping. there's a lot more shops and bar and restaurants opening here. we've got a whole foods in tribeca, which is fantastic. >> reporter: preston is one of thousands of people who moved to lower manhattan post 9-11. in fact the residential population of the area, also known as the financial district, has more than doubled in the last ten years. in the weeks and months following that tragic day, few might have predicted the neighborhood would come back so strongly, so quickly and be so transformed. sure new buildings are still under construction at what still sometimes called ground zero, but lower manhattan has become hot if not even hip. longtime resident and downtown al
. >> reporter: on september 11 2001, lucy preston was living on a different continent. today, she resides just a few blocks from the former world trade center having bought an apartment in lower manhattan in 2008. not only does it come with a stunning rooftop deck, but it's in what she calls an ideal community. >> we've been living here for last six years and there's a real feel of neighborhood redeveloping. there's a lot more shops and bar and restaurants opening here. we've got a...
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we have lucy liu. but also we need a lot of people, you know, like latino. we need people behind it. >> hinojosa: yeah. >> behind it. but i will also-- at the risk of being unpopular, which i often become-- i think we can always blame other people, but asians, especially chinese-- i'll just say chinese-- do not support their own artists enough. >> hinojosa: when you said that, i... and you do. you say it very clearly. you say asian people in the united states are not supportive of asian actors, asians in the arts. >> not the young people. they're doing it. they're very hungry. i'm talking about my generation. >> hinojosa: what do you think that's about? >> well, two things. one is they are busy surviving. >> hinojosa: yeah. >> working, you know? the other thing is-- this is my theory and i am sticking to it-- chinese have an innate disrespect for artists. >> hinojosa: i know, and when you when you said that i was like... >> because historically, an educated man, a cultured man, has to know how to paint, has to know how to write poetry, how to be... he has to
we have lucy liu. but also we need a lot of people, you know, like latino. we need people behind it. >> hinojosa: yeah. >> behind it. but i will also-- at the risk of being unpopular, which i often become-- i think we can always blame other people, but asians, especially chinese-- i'll just say chinese-- do not support their own artists enough. >> hinojosa: when you said that, i... and you do. you say it very clearly. you say asian people in the united states are not...
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in the peanuts cartoon that runs every fall where charlie brown is ready to kick the football, and lucy says, "this time i'm going the leave it there," and every time he steps up to kick the ball, she pulls it back. we've had something similar from the european authority. every time there is a plan, the market says, i like the idea. and then so far at least, the delivery on those ideas has been limited. so now we have again mr. sarkozy and angela merkel of germany agreeing on sunday that what they need to be doing is recapitalizing the banks. >> tom: is it enough? >> pardon? >> tom: is it enough? >> i don't think it's enough, but by itself it would be a great start. and yet the question is how are they going to do that? in the end, by the time of the delivery date so to speak that's been projected for the grand plan november 3rd and 4th, will the plan really look so grand? i don't know, but i do think that's the critical issue because this is the banking system issue as well as a sovereign debt issue in europe. >> tom: stu, just 20 seconds left. with that kind of oversight, that environ
in the peanuts cartoon that runs every fall where charlie brown is ready to kick the football, and lucy says, "this time i'm going the leave it there," and every time he steps up to kick the ball, she pulls it back. we've had something similar from the european authority. every time there is a plan, the market says, i like the idea. and then so far at least, the delivery on those ideas has been limited. so now we have again mr. sarkozy and angela merkel of germany agreeing on sunday...
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lucy? >> hinojosa: ( laughing ) >> and so he... and he, from his time in the philippines, he learned enough phrases to pass as a philippino national, and so he came to seattle first, and then to san francisco, and then to oakland. >> hinojosa: do you sometimes... because i know, everybody is like "fong-torres. what is up with ben fong-torres?" i mean, your dad could have... he could have just decided to be fong... >> yes, he could have. >> hinojosa: ...but he had taken this "torres"... >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: ...and he said, "i'm going to keep it in my name." >> well, no, he didn't say any of that stuff, but at the hospital when the first child was born-- sarah-- a family friend who knew of these things said, "dude, you can't be fong because your legal name here is torres, all right?" >> hinojosa: oh! >> although now i like the sound of "tor-rez." it's a... i'm going to go with that now from now on at this late stage in life. "and you cannot be 'torres' because your real, god-given name is-
lucy? >> hinojosa: ( laughing ) >> and so he... and he, from his time in the philippines, he learned enough phrases to pass as a philippino national, and so he came to seattle first, and then to san francisco, and then to oakland. >> hinojosa: do you sometimes... because i know, everybody is like "fong-torres. what is up with ben fong-torres?" i mean, your dad could have... he could have just decided to be fong... >> yes, he could have. >> hinojosa:...
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lucy manning of independent television news narrates this report. >> he led his people overthrowit regime and now his people stood thousands strong to honor him. from playwrite and political prisoner to prize thi presidenta man that changed history. and so world leaders came to acknowledge what he had achieved the prime minister and the former prime minister david cameron said no one of his generation would forget the scenes of the velvet revolution. >> the clintons and formsecret.e he had loved hi music and president clinton'visit there hahad seen the two men jamming n a. >>> -- jazz club. >> the church bell tolled andthr the the man from the east to west. me he proved the pen was mightier than the sword. echoed by a message sent by the pope. >> he defended human rights attm systematically denied to the people of your country. >> after the sound of the rec we iin preston. in frys -- prison. he brought light into the places that is deepest darkness. as his coffin was carried out like in that revolutionary year they waved their keys the sign for the communists to go home and the doors to b
lucy manning of independent television news narrates this report. >> he led his people overthrowit regime and now his people stood thousands strong to honor him. from playwrite and political prisoner to prize thi presidenta man that changed history. and so world leaders came to acknowledge what he had achieved the prime minister and the former prime minister david cameron said no one of his generation would forget the scenes of the velvet revolution. >> the clintons and formsecret.e...
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the directors are lucy walker, joao jardim and karen harley. here's an excerpt. >> right now, i'm at this point in my career, i'm trying to step a little bit away from the realm of fine arts. i think it's very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. what i really want to do is to be able to change the lives of a group of people with the same material that they deal with every day. and not just any material. the idea i have for my next series is to work with garbage. when you talk about transformation, you know, this being the stuff of art, joining materials and ideas, i don't know. this is the beginning of an idea. i just have the material, and i have to go after an image. did you have a chance to look at that? >> yes. on youtube there's video that was shot at this place. >> my experience mixing art with social products is that's the main thing. it's like taking people away-- even if it's for a few minutes-- away from where they are and showing them another world, another place. even if the place from which they can look at where they are. you
the directors are lucy walker, joao jardim and karen harley. here's an excerpt. >> right now, i'm at this point in my career, i'm trying to step a little bit away from the realm of fine arts. i think it's very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. what i really want to do is to be able to change the lives of a group of people with the same material that they deal with every day. and not just any material. the idea i have for my next series is to work with garbage. when you talk about...
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. >> the team includes this dog, named lucy, from the long beach california police department, and two others from california, tinkerbell and knight. >> narrator: the anthrax letters had an unusual scent. the fbi said the dogs picked up that scent at the exact same place-- steven hatfill's apartment. >> ...former u.s. government scientist, steven hatfill... >> to the people who saw him as a viable suspect, the dogs were just one more piece of a matrix of circumstantial evidence. >> narrator: then, after a tip, the fbi thought the bloodhounds had found the location of hatfill's bio-weapons lab, supposedly hidden near a pond in the maryland woods. >> it seemed a bit of a stretch that you could track an odor or a smell to a location months and months and months after someone had been to a particular spot by a lake. but they believed that that had some real potential. >> narrator: investigators had come to believe hatfill somehow had produced the deadly anthrax powder in an improvised underwater lab. >> engineers are draining a maryland pond today... >> ...draining a pond looking for evide
. >> the team includes this dog, named lucy, from the long beach california police department, and two others from california, tinkerbell and knight. >> narrator: the anthrax letters had an unusual scent. the fbi said the dogs picked up that scent at the exact same place-- steven hatfill's apartment. >> ...former u.s. government scientist, steven hatfill... >> to the people who saw him as a viable suspect, the dogs were just one more piece of a matrix of circumstantial...
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filmmakers lucy bailey and andrew thompson spent 2008 recording the experiences of a white family who challenged the land reform policy of president robert mugabe. it was designed to reallocate white-owned land to poor black farmers, but mugabe's henchmen were often the chief beneficiaries. mike campbell claimed the policy violated human rights laws and filed suit in an intnational court based in south africa. here is an excerpt from the film "mugabe and the white african." much of it was shot with a hidden camera. >> their plan is to remove every white farmer off the land, and now we've gone to the international court, and i think this is the last chance we got to keep white farmers here. >> this case is a huge responsibility and i know that it wears in mike mind constantly. this case is direct challenge to robert mugabe and his government, but its also a challenge to the rest of the world. we want the world to wake up to the injustices of what is happening inside zimbabwe. mugabe doesn't want harmony between blacks and whites. he wants the whites to hate the blacks and the blacks to
filmmakers lucy bailey and andrew thompson spent 2008 recording the experiences of a white family who challenged the land reform policy of president robert mugabe. it was designed to reallocate white-owned land to poor black farmers, but mugabe's henchmen were often the chief beneficiaries. mike campbell claimed the policy violated human rights laws and filed suit in an intnational court based in south africa. here is an excerpt from the film "mugabe and the white african." much of it...
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obama and he's always said next year year i'm really goingingo tack et-- damage el the deficit it is lucy pulling away the football from charlie brown at some point. i want him to actually say okay this is the year we're going to talk about it. so i guess my reaction to the speech was very positive the first day but it's gotten a little sour the subsequent days. >> lehrer: the same progression from you? it sounded better the night he said it than it does now? >> well, there is a little bit of the gary hart, fritz mondale race, where's the beef. i mean the question that mondale asked of hart, sort of a in the future we've got to get moving. we're a great country. we're this and that. he volked our great days of the past, gave us a sense of confidence and optimism about the future. but it didn't come down to the action statement. therefore this is what i am asking of you, and me, and every american tonight. that's what is missing. >> and of course what is never missing for a president of the united states, just about the time you think you may have one thing to do, now you have egypt to dea
obama and he's always said next year year i'm really goingingo tack et-- damage el the deficit it is lucy pulling away the football from charlie brown at some point. i want him to actually say okay this is the year we're going to talk about it. so i guess my reaction to the speech was very positive the first day but it's gotten a little sour the subsequent days. >> lehrer: the same progression from you? it sounded better the night he said it than it does now? >> well, there is a...
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i watch him try to compromise and i feel like, you know, the old charlie brown thing where lucy would bng the football out every fall and he would try to kick it and she'd lift it up. that's how it's knelt the debt negoations and my sense-- and i defer to the many political commentators here-- that the republicans have been gaining ground by refusing to compromise. they're not going to. they've been winning and until he gets out there, says what he stands for says what he wants to do. i didn't agree with everything but it's broadly sensible that actually we do need a bit of stimulus to pull it out that quickly. you've got say it and if you can't make the case then you shouldn't be president anymore. he needed to make the case. >> rose: some suggests if he can't make the case he won't be president anymore. how important was this moment for him, john? >> well, this is a very important broadly... not just this moment tonight but this moment right now in american politics is a very big moment and we're seeing the republican primary race starting to congeal and we're starting to get a sens
i watch him try to compromise and i feel like, you know, the old charlie brown thing where lucy would bng the football out every fall and he would try to kick it and she'd lift it up. that's how it's knelt the debt negoations and my sense-- and i defer to the many political commentators here-- that the republicans have been gaining ground by refusing to compromise. they're not going to. they've been winning and until he gets out there, says what he stands for says what he wants to do. i didn't...